Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)

Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 film, a remake of the 1960 film of the same name which follows a group of cons in their attempt to rob a Las Vegas Casino. The leader of the group, Daniel Ocean, gets together the best of the worst to take a load of money...and something even more precious...from Vegas hot-shot casino owner Terry Benedict. Ocean's Twelve & Ocean's Thirteen are sequels to this movie.

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[at the end of a poker game] I'm not sure what four nines does, but the ace, I think, is pretty high.

Because the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house.

You're either in or you're out. Right now.

[At a bar, talking to Rusty] ...And Saul makes ten. Ten oughta do it, don't you think? [Rusty, with his head on the bar and a forlorn look, says nothing] You think we need one more? [Rusty still says nothing] You think we need one more. [Yet again, Rusty says nothing] All right, we'll get one more.

[When Danny and Rusty first present their idea] YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR GODDAMN MINDS!

You guys are pros. The best. I'm sure you can make it out of the casino. Of course, lest we forget, once you're out the front door, you're still in the middle of the fucking desert!

I know more about casino security than any man alive, I invented it, and it cannot be beaten. They got cameras, they got locks, they got watchers, they got timers, they got vaults, they got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris! [pause] Okay, bad example.

[after rejecting Danny and Rusty's plan to rob a casino] Look, we all go way back, and I owe you guys from the thing with the guy in the place, and I'll never forget it.

[after opening his door and seeing most of the eleven standing there] What? Did you guys get a group rate or something?

[after talking to Linus] It's nice there. You like it? [Linus says yeah] That's wonderful. Get in the goddamn house.

Rusty: Off the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald, ever. Where are we going to get the funding for this?

Danny: We hit these three casinos, we get our bankroll. Benedict's got a long list of enemies.

Rusty: Enemies with a lot of loose cash and nothing to lose? [Pauses then nods] Reuben.

Danny: Reuben.

Danny: You remember the day I went out for cigarettes and didn't come back? You must have noticed. [goes to sit down]

Tess: I don't smoke. Don't sit.

[last minute tips for Linus]

Rusty: Where you gonna put your hands?

[Linus places his hands on briefcase handle]

Rusty: No good.

[Linus touches his tie]

Rusty: Don't touch your tie. Look at me. Okay. I ask you a question, you have to think of the answer. Where do you look?

[Linus looks down]

Rusty: No good. You look down, they know you're lying. And up, they know you don't know the truth. Don't use seven words when four will do. Don't shift your weight, look always at your mark but don't stare, be specific but not memorable, be funny but don't make him laugh. He's got to like you then forget you the moment you've left his sight. And for God's sake, whatever you do, don't, under any circumstances--

Livingston: Rus?

Rusty: Yeah?

Livingston: Come look at this?

Rusty: Sure.

Terry: [On the phone]Who the hell is this?

Rusty: The man who's robbing you.

[last lines]

[Danny has just gotten out of jail]

Danny: Hi.

Tess: Hi. We need to get Rusty a girl.

Rusty: There's a women's prison down the road.

Danny: [noticing Tess is wearing her wedding ring] You said that you sold this.

Tess: I said that.

Danny: Liar.

Tess: Thief.

[they kiss]

Rusty(As Danny walks out of prison in a tux) I hope to God you were the groom.

Danny: Thirteen million and you drive this piece of shit cross country to pick me up?

Rusty: Blew it all on the suit.

Rusty: Wait, the Bellagio, the Mirage...These are Terry Benedict's places.

Danny: Yes they are. You think he'll mind?

Rusty: More than somewhat.

Danny: There's a ninety-five pound Chinese man with a hundred sixty million dollars behind this door.

Linus: Let's get him out.

Danny: It's never been tried.

Reuben: Ho, ho... "It's never been tried." Oh, it's been tried. A few guys even came close. You know the three most successful robberies in the history of Vegas?

[flashback - the gaming room at the Horseshow, in black-and-white]

Reuben:[voiceover] Number three, the Bronze Medal - pencil-neck grabs a lockbox at the Horseshoe...

[a man grabs a lockbox out of a guard's hand and runs for the door, and six guards instantly tackle him to the floor]

Reuben: He got two steps closer to the door than any living soul before him.

[cut to the present]

Reuben: Second most successful robbery...

[flashback - the gaming room at the Flamingo, in grainy color. A long-haired man is running for the door, clutching a bag]

Reuben: The Flamingo in '71. This guy actually tasted fresh oxygen before they grabbed him.

[the man gets within a few feet of the door, before a guard clotheslines him across the neck with a nightstick]

Reuben: Of course, he was breathing out of a hose for the next three weeks. Goddamn hippy.

[back to the present]

Reuben: And the *closest* any man has ever come to robbing a Las Vegas casino...

[flashback - outside Caesar's Palace, in color. A man runs out, hunched over an armful of cash, followed by three security guards]

Reuben: ...was outside of Caesar's in '87. He came, he grabbed...

[the three guards shoot the thief in the back]

Reuben: ...they conquered.

[Basher's original plan for knocking out the casino's power has flopped]

Basher: Hang on a minute, hang on... we could use a pinch.

Danny: What's a "pinch"?

Basher: A pinch is a device which creates, like, a cardiac arrest for any broadband electrical circuitry. Better yet, a pinch is a bomb - now, but without the bomb. See, when a nuclear weapon detonates, it unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source within its blast radius. Now that tends not to matter in most cases, because the nuclear weapon usually destroys anything you might need power for anyway. But see, a pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, but without the fuss of mass destruction and death. So instead of Hiroshima, you'd be getting the seventeenth century.

Reuben: Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it.

Danny: That was our pleasure.

Rusty: I'd never been to Belize.

Danny: Why do they always paint hallways that color?

Rusty: They say taupe is very soothing.

Danny: Saul, are you sure you're ready to do this?

Saul: If you ever ask me that question again, Daniel, you will not wake up the following morning.

Danny:[to Reuben] He's ready.

Danny: Tess, you're doing a great job curating the museum, the Vermeer is quite good, simple, vibrant, but his work definitely fell off as he got older.

Tess: Remind you of anyone?

Danny: And I always confuse Monet and Manet. Now which one married his mistress?

Tess: Monet.

Danny: Right, and then Manet had syphilis.

Tess: They also painted occasionally.

Tess: You're a thief and a liar.

Danny: I only lied about being a thief, I don't do that anymore.

Tess: Steal?

Danny: Lie.

Tess: I'm with someone who doesn't have to make that kind of distinction.

Danny: No, he's very clear on both.

Tess: You know what your problem is?

Danny: I only have one?

Rusty: Tell me this is not about her, or I am walking. I am walking off this job right now.

Danny: Russ, do you remember what we said back when we first got into this business. We said we were gonna play the game...

Danny, Rusty: Like we had nothing to lose.

Danny: Well, I lost something... I lost someone. That's why I'm here.

[long pause]

Rusty: Okay, here's the problem - now we're stealing two things. And when push comes to shove, and you can't have both, which are you gonna choose? And remember - Tess does not split eleven ways.

Danny: Well, if everything goes according to plan, I won't be the one who will have to make that decision...[Pause] So, how did she look?

Rusty: She looked good.

Danny: Thanks.

Reuben: What have you guys got against Terry Benedict?

Rusty: What do you have against him, that's the question.

Reuben: He torpedoed my casino, muscled me out. Now he's gonna blow it up next month to make way for some gaudy monstrosity! Don't think I don't see what you're doing.

Rusty: What are we doing, Reuben?

Reuben: If you're gonna steal from Terry Benedict, you'd better Goddamn know. This sort of t'ing used to be civilized. You'd hit a guy, he'd whack you, done. But with Benedict... at the end of this, he'd better not know you're involved, not know your names, or t'ink you're dead. Because he'll kill you, and then he'll go to work on you.

[masquerading as an A.T.F. agent, Rusty shoves Basher against a police car, pretending to search him.]

Rusty: [under his breath] Hey, Bash.

Basher: Hey, Russ.

Rusty: How fast can you put something together from what I just slipped you?

Basher: It's done.

[Rusty lifts up Basher, and they slowly leave the crime scene]

Basher: Hey, is Danny about?

Rusty: Yeah, he's waiting around the corner.

Basher: Oh, that's terrific! It will be nice working with proper villains again.

Officer: [shouting] Everybody down, now!

[they break into a run as explosions rock the crime scene]

Basher: Ha-ha-ha! They weren't expecting that shit!

Rusty: Nice work.

Basher: Oh, thank you!

Danny: Second task, power - on the night of the fight, we're gonna throw the switch on Sin City. Basher, it's your show.

Basher: You want broke, blind, or bedlam?

Danny: How about all three?

Basher: Right, it's done.

[while reconnoitering the casinos]

Virgil: [makes a note] He went in at 10:44.

Turk: 10:46, get a watch that works.

Virgil: Dude, you make me sick. It's 10:44.

Turk: 10:46.

Saul: Are you going to tell me? Or should I just say No and get it over with?

Rusty: Saul, you're the best there is. You're in Cooperstown. What do you want?

Rusty: Guys like us don't change, Saul. We either stay sharp or we get sloppy, we don't change.

Saul: Quit conning me.

Basher: That poxy demo crew haven't used a coaxial feed to batten the main line, have they? Instead they've gone and nosed up the backup grid, nosed it right up!

Reuben: [to Livingston] Do you understand any of this?

Livingston: I'll explain later.

Topher Grace: Hey Rus, let me ask you a question. Are you incorporated? Well, if not you should really think about it, 'cause I was talking to my manager...

Rusty: Bernie?

Topher Grace: No, not Bernie, my business manager. You know what? They're both named Bernie. Anyway, he was saying that because what we do here is kind of like research for a future like gig or whatever. I can totally make it a tax write off. The only thing is, and this is like *his* thing and it's stupid, is I'd have to pay you by check.

[Rusty stops and looks at him]

Topher Grace: ...Or we could stick with the cash. [Rusty nods] You know what? Yeah, let's just stick with the cash.

[sitting in a surveillance van with two FBI agents]

FBI Man #2: Let's see if we can zoom in on that guy...

FBI Man #1: Yeah.

[he reaches for the camera controls]

Livingston: Don't - don't - d-don't... Don't touch that.

FBI Man #1: Why not?

Livingston: Uh, do you see me grabbing the gun out of your holster and just waving it around?

FBI Man #2: Hey, RadioShack, relax.

[watching Linus trapped on the upper floor by security guards]

Virgil Malloy: Shouldn't someone help him?

Basher: Oh, that's a good idea, Albert. Let's hop out of the van and then we can all get nicked!

Rusty: Saul, turn that off, will you?

Saul: [in fake accent] I'll turn it off when I'm ready to turn it off...

Rusty: Saul!

Saul: [normal voice] It's off, it's off!

Turk: Watch it, bud.

Virgil: Who you calling bud, pal?

Turk: Who you calling pal, friend?

Virgil: Who you calling friend, jackass?

Turk: Don't call me a jackass.

Virgil: I just did call you a jackass!

Danny: [holds up a black wallet] Hello Linus. Whose is this?

Linus: Who are you?

Danny: A friend of Bobby Caldwell's.

[produces a plane ticket]

Danny: You're either in or you're out. Right now.

Linus: What is it?

Danny: It's a plane ticket. A job offer.

Linus: You're pretty trusting pretty fast.

Danny: Well Bobby has a lot of faith in you.

Linus: Fathers are like that. [pauses, Danny is genuinley surprised] Didn't he tell you? He didn't want me trading on his name.

Danny: Do this job and he'll be trading on yours.

[while they are watching a dozen Chinese acrobats at a circus]

Danny: Which one is the amazing Yen?

Rusty: The little Chinese guy.

[Danny gives Rusty a long look]

Danny: So who else is on the list?

Rusty: He is the list.

[Shaking Billy Tim Denham's hand]

Frank: You have lovely hands. Do you moisturize?

Billy Tim Denham: I'm sorry?

Frank: You know, I've tried all sorts of moisturizers. I even went fragrance free for a whole year. Now my sister, she uses some kind of uh... uh... uh... uh... aloe vera with a little sunscreen in it, and ideally, we should all wear gloves when going to bed, but I found out that that creates a kind of an interference with my... social agenda, you know what I mean. [winks]

Rusty: Why do this?

Danny: Why not do it?

[Rusty shakes his head]

Danny: 'Cause yesterday I walked out of the joint after losing four years of my life and you're cold-decking "Teen Beat" cover boys. [pause] 'Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, then you take the house.

[another pause]

Rusty: Been practicing this speech, haven't you?

Danny: Little bit. Did I rush it? Felt like I rushed it.

Rusty: No, it was good, I liked it. [elevator starts to close] The "Teen Beat" thing was harsh though...I wonder what Reuben will say.

[cuts to Reuben's house]

Reuben: You're out of you're goddamn minds!

Terry: I know everything that's happening in my hotels.

Danny: So I should put the towels back?

Terry: No, the towels you can keep.

Tess: Danny was walking through the restaurant when he spotted me.

Terry: Is that right?

Danny: Yeah, imagine the odds.

Terry: "Of all the gin joints in all the world".

Rusty: God, I'm bored!

Danny: You look bored.

Rusty: I am bored!

[long pause]

Rusty: How was the clink? You get the cookies I sent?

Danny: Why do you think I came to see you first?

Saul: I have a question: Say we get into the cage, and through the security doors there and down the elevator we can't move, and past the guards with the guns, and into the vault we can't open...

Rusty: Without being seen by the cameras.

Danny: Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot to mention that.

Saul: Yeah well, say we do all that... uh... we're just supposed to walk out of there with a hundred and fifty million dollars in cash on us, without getting stopped?

[everyone looks at Danny]

Danny: Yeah.

Saul: Oh. Okay [takes a pill to calm his nerves].

Linus: Smash and grab job, huh?

Rusty: Slightly more complicated than that.

Linus: Well, yeah.

Danny: We need the codes, Linus. From the only guy that knows all three.

Linus: Who, Benedict?

Danny: Learn to love his shadow.

Linus: What, I just get to watch the guy?

Danny: You gotta walk before you crawl.

Rusty: Reverse that.

Rusty: What's with the orange?

Saul: My doctor says I need vitamins.

Rusty: So why don't you take vitamins?

Saul: You come here to give me a physical?

Parole Board Member #1: Mr Ocean, the purpose of this hearing is to determine, whether, if released, you are likely to break the law again. While this was your first conviction, you have been implicated, though never charged, in over a dozen other confidence tricks and frauds. What can you tell us about those?

Danny: As you say, ma'am, I was never charged.

Parole Board Member #2: Mr Ocean, what we're trying to find out is was there a reason you chose to commit this crime, or was there a reason you simply got caught this time.

Danny: My wife left me. I was upset. I fell into a self-destructive pattern.

Parole Board Member #3: If released, is it likely you'd fall back into a similar pattern?

Danny: She already left me once. I don't think she'd do it again just for kicks.

[He triggers the bomb, and the safe door cracks open. Laughing, Basher dances into the vault - and the alarm goes off]

Basher: Oh leave it out! You tossers! You had one job to do!

Terry: All right. Now I have complied with your every request, would you agree?

Rusty: I would.

Terry: Good, 'cause now I have one of my own. Run and hide, asshole. Run and hide. If you should be picked up next week buying a hundred-thousand dollar sports car in Newport Beach, I am going to be supremely disappointed. Because I want my people to find you, and when they do, rest assured we are not going to hand you over to the police. So my advice to you again is this: run and hide. That is all that I ask.(no response) Hello?

( cuts to bar where Rusty's phone is lying on the counter)

Danny: All right.

[Bruiser punches Danny]

Danny: Ahh! Jesus [punches a table in pain and frustration], Bruiser, not until later!